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<p class=MsoPlainText>The Atlantic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Daily Dish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Andrew Sullivan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>19 Oct 2008 04:03 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIII: Accessing Wooten's
Medical Records<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>From the <a
href="http://www.pubrecord.org/component/content/337.html?task=view">Public
Record</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin has denied claims that she and several of her senior staffers
illegally accessed the personnel file of her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten,
and disseminated confidential information about the law enforcement official to
his superiors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Palin,
Sen. John McCain’s running mate, her private attorney Thomas Van Flein,
and McCain campaign officials, said the confidential medical and employment
records became part of the public record during divorce proceedings between
Wooten and Palin’s sister, Molly McCann...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><em><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>But
that assertion is untrue</span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>In
fact, the judge who presided over the divorce proceedings and the custody
hearings that took place over the course of three years never saw
Wooten’s records because the trooper entered into a settlement agreement
with his ex-wife over custody of their young children before the confidential
information was discussed in court, according to Palin’s sister’s attorney,
Roberta Erwin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Read the whole thing. Palin
clearly stepped over the usual ethical and legal limits to access Mike Wooten's
personal medical files and disseminated the information to smear her ex
brother-in-law. Todd Palin was deeply involved as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Palin's other publicly
documented lies can be read <a
href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-twelve-lies.html">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies-21.html">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies-21.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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